Project 2007 Level 2
Short course
In Washington
Description
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Type
Short course
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Location
Washington
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Duration
1 Day
This course is aimed at those delegates who have fairly good understanding of both Project Management, and also, how to use Microsoft Project. It introduces more advanced topics of the software, specifically multiple project handling, group working, and customisation.
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About this course
Delegates should have good working knowledge of Project 2003 and will ideally have completed the Project Level 1 course. They should feel at ease setting up basic plans in Project, using tasks & resources and switching between the many views of the plan in Project itself.
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Course programme
This course is aimed at those delegates who have fairly good understanding of both Project Management, and also, how to use Microsoft Project. It introduces more advanced topics of the software, specifically multiple project handling, group working, and customisation.
Prerequisites
- Delegates should have good working knowledge of Project 2003 and will ideally have completed the Project Level 1 course.
- They should feel at ease setting up basic plans in Project, using tasks & resources and switching between the many views of the plan in Project itself.
Objectives
- Delegates will be able to :
- Use Advanced Scheduling
- Use advanced scheduling to manipulate multiple task types and features
- Use complex task features, lag, lead, delay, summary linking etc
- Use advanced resource / cost / time management, including manual contouring
- Manage Project Consolidation
- Handle master projects, insert sub projects, linked or detached
- Schedule using resource pooling across projects, as opposed to dedicated resources
- Cross link projects, for task and resource management
- Use Project Tracking
- Have a full baseline / interim plan appreciation
- Customise The Project Environment
- Customise project views, sheets, tables, forms and fields
- Customise the workspace
- Customise and distribute reports
- Project 2007 Level 1 ()
- Bespoke course (a course written to your specific needs) at your company office throughout the UK, at our training venue or at an independent location, convenient to you
- Private course at your company office throughout the UK, at our training room or at an independent location, convenient to you
- Scheduled public course at one of our training venues
- Comprehensive colour course manual and exercises
- Use of a Modern Training suite with 19 inch flat screen monitors
- 1 delegate per computer
- Lunch (When at our training venue)
- Refreshments (When at our training venue)
- Relaxed refreshment area at our training room
- 12 Months telephone and email support
Recording & Tracking Progress
- The tracking toolbar
- What is a 'Project'
- A typical project model
- Project parameters and examples
- Project life cycle stages
- The 'end game'
- Project default screen
- The program or title bar
- The standard toolbar
- The formatting toolbar
- The formula bar
- The view bar
- The table view
- The chart view
- The time scale
- The project information
- The project statistics
- The project properties
- The project calendar
- The project working time
- Project and software set up summarised
- General
- Predecessors
- Resources
- Advanced
- Notes
- Custom fields
- Tasks (the calendar view)
- Tasks (the network diagram)
- Master projects (consolidating)
- Creating master projects
- Master / sub project properties
- Mixing master / sub project tasks
- Recurring tasks
- Splitting tasks
- Summary task linking
- Resource types
- Costs
- Resource tables
- Work resources
- The WORK calculation
- Task types
- Effort driven scheduling
- Material resources
- General
- Working time
- Costs
- Notes
- Custom fields
- Resource sheet views
- Resource usage view
- Resource graph
- Resources (over allocation and levelling)
- Examining over allocations
- Resource levelling dialogue box
- Viewing resource levelling
- Resource sharing
- Viewing shared resource assignments
- Resource contouring (work)
- Resource contouring (materials)
- Custom fields
- Accessing and creating custom fields
- Create a custom view
- Create a custom chart
- Custom bar styles (passive)
- Custom bar styles (active/dynamic)
- What are calendars?
- Base calendars
- Project calendars
- Resource calendars
- Task calendars
- The calendar options
- Using the organiser
- What is a baseline?
- What is an interim plan?
- Saving a baseline
- The 'canned' reports
- Customising reports
- Virtual reports
- Sending files or pictures of the file
- Exporting the gantt chart to Office
Project 2007 Level 2